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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Painesville, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Painesville, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Painesville. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Painesville, OH safe?
Painesville, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 17 out of 100, grade F, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 13% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 45% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.
- Safety Score
- 17 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 13%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 87%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Painesville compares
Painesville scores 36 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Painesville lies in Lake County, which has a county Safety Score of 59, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Painesville.
Neighborhoods inside Painesville
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Painesville, 15 of them mostly inside it. Among those 15, the lowest scores 1, the highest 72, and the middle 80% range from 3 to 16.
ZIP codes where Painesville residents live
Nearly all of Painesville's estimated residents live in ZIP 44077 (Safety Score 50, grade C). An estimated 64% of that ZIP's residents live outside Painesville, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44077 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Mentor Safety Score 67 · grade B · 5.0 miles
- Willoughby Safety Score 45 · grade C · 9.5 miles
- Eastlake Safety Score 46 · grade C · 10 miles
- Willowick Safety Score 43 · grade C · 13 miles
- Wickliffe Safety Score 53 · grade C · 13 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Painesville
Painesville has an estimated 20,660 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 6.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 16 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.
How this page is built
ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.
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